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Submissions from 1999
DSL: A Look in the Development and the Future, Todd Hansberry and Steve Nahas
Compendium of Automated Manufacturing Methodsin Production Planning System, Chiung-hui Huang
Voices of our past: the rank and file movement in social work, 1931-1950, Richard William Hunter
American Indian Elderly and Long-Term Care : Interorganizational Barriers to the Use of Oregon's Home and Community-Based Medicaid Waiver, Jo Lynn Isgrigg
"Walla-Walla Sweet" Onion Ring Sales Effects Project Research Report, Kusha Janati
Armory Rental Program Capital Improvement Decision Model, Kusha Janati, Ahmad Lubis, And Ozbay, Iwan Sudrajat, and Gloria Trujillo
Using Data Envelopment Analysis to Select the National Basketball Association League Most Valuable Player, Kusha Janati and Nergis Numanoglu
Identifying and Ranking Efficient Frame Rail Procurement Strategies Using DEA, Ataman Kayim
Holgate Lake Study: An Examination of the Issues Associated with Groundwater Flooding, John J. Lynch Jr., Heidi A. Mader, and Mark McCann
The Universal Nature of Hatred: Keith Stimely and the Culture of Holocaust Denial, Linda Maizels
Space Shuttle Challenger Accident: Case Study of High Tech Project Failure, Travis C. Naef
Entrepreneurship, Nergis Numanoglu
House of Cards: Self-Diagnosis of Team, Luis Ornelas, Kim Wilson-St. Clair, Elizabeth Turgeon, and Jessica Kreitzer
Literature Review: Strategic Planning, And Ozbay
Application of Mass Customization and IPIX Technology in Real Estate Sector, And Ozbay and Seong M. Roh
The Effects of Mentoring on Work-parenting Gains and Strains in a Sample of Employed Predominately Female AFDC Recipients, Charlene Rhyne
Enhancements to the Scalable Coherent Interface Cache Protocol, Robert J. Safranek
Rebuilding with Habitat: a Feasibility Study for a Portland Re-Store, Eli Spevak, Rebecca Newman, Barbara Linssen, and Clint Wertz
Entrepreneurship, Pornthep Suteerachai
Space Shuttle Challenger Accident: Case Study of High Tech Project Failure, Elizabeth Turgeon
Comparing Projects Using Data Envelopment Analysis, Jodi Elain Wright
Submissions from 1998
Emerging Technologies for the Third Mellennium, Eric Abrams, Beril Coskun, Jonathan Chien-Te Ho, Nergis Numanoglu, Alper Ozdil, Scott Robertson, Andreas Sunardi, and Craig Volz